| Show SHORTAGE iHU AfiE OF GOAL COAL MAY STOP TRAINS t j H Harriman Lines Nearly Out of ol J Fuel to Be Used On i Lines 12 1 2 ONLY TWO DA DAYS DAYS' YS' YS SUPPLY t b Southern Pacific c May n Confiscate Coal ConI 1 In ill O den Yards to Continue 1 or of Tnt In Inter Mountain Inter Republican Bureau Street Og en Nov ov 2 The The old CI cry of or coal Shortage Is a again aln being heard on nil all rl sides es This time however the f greatest greate wall wail comes from om the railI rail rail- I roads The Situation here Is extremely L- L serious and unless relief I comes within b the next few fes- days passenger and freight frel ht traffic I 0 will vili be affected to an al alI al- al most demoralizing t I t At extent I noon to today a the Southern Pacific had About fOIt forty eight l hours hours' supply on olt J. J hand for use u on the Salt Lake division dl j and with 1 no certain promise of immediate Immediate im- im l me mediate relief The Short Line is also t I f I. I In hard d lines JInes just nt at present but as jt It t I Is nearer nealer to the source of or has hns supply It J a fighting chance The Rio Grande i Western c lern is 1 on ea easy street com I para U el lively and has 11 about ninety days days' sup sup- I t c ply JI stored In in n It its itc yards I L The Harriman lines JInes are aro dividing dividing- up lIi coal as ns fast t u as it cnn can be he brought into the cli city and fifteen cars cm's of Short Line i coal that came caine In today was allotted to the Salt Lake division islon of the South South- t r em ern eln Pacific As yet N no delay in traffic has hag resulted from the shortage h but t there Is no t tOlling telling lIIn what the future has In store The Fhe roads are using I 1 a greatti- greatti quantity of If coal coul at than at any time lima during their thell history r Roads U Up Against It The shortage of coal on the the- roads Is of oC vital Interest t to this part Jart of the tIlt k West cst as if tile the worst comes Coine to worst r- r It will me mean n that the he Harriman roads 1 r l. l will vIll confiscate all the coal coni that comes Into the tIie yards no matter to in whom IL It belongs s for fur without coal there then would r L- L he be no motive C power and without motive motivo mo mo- tive tivo l power jower there would be lie no trains If such confiscation conf cation occurs the commercial com corn mc mercial rc ll supply sappl would suffer re refill resulting ting r In a shortage in th the city Anticipating the big strike e at al Trinidad Colo Cola some sometime time tini ago LIC the railroad company confiscated all nil the th coal coni that came a me into the tIlo yards antI and for fOI two weeks 8 stored up all the coal that could he be obtained When rhen the strike came the company had a good gool working supply on hand and anti private vale ate consumer suffered as a result of the strike e. e This TIlls is Illustrative of what the railroad companies will do elo when pressed to furnish motive mothe power powel forthe for the lie operation of thc their ir lines i During the summer the Harriman lines JInes a u great t quantity of ot coal here but hut for some ome time pa past t ha have been drawing on that J reserve e In the th hope j that the supply 1 I mined would be IH gr greater great great- at- at er OI and they could thus have havo enough for 01 pro I needs find and also store some But flut lh the demand has JUts n lie Die h supply and nn l until more coal al R rn 1 raIned mined than Is IsI I being mined at present nt there will vill bo ho a The Southern Pacific and Oregon Short hort Line get most of the coal used from Kemmerer Rock nock RockSprings Springs and an Cumberland mines A Acon con considerably smaller quantity Is l obtained ob oh- lain lathed cd from the Pleasant Va Valley 11 mines on OIl the line of or the Rio Grande Western Want tant More Men 11 I The c Ct cry comes up Ul from roin the mines that there arent aren't miners enough to work the mines Practically all the thc t mines 1 want more men anti and at good V wages As fast a as the coal conI II Is gotten out It is loa loaded led onto the CUTS and shipped ship ship- ped out out- The trouble on the Harriman y t. t lines Is not rIot with the motive power or rolling stock but with the supply It It- It k self Because of the fact that traffic Is so exceptionally heavy during October because became of or orthe and nn November antI and also the fact that people have big orders In for Cor the winter supply the demand for tor coal conJ Is ii greater at this season eason than at any ny other The mines are months f b behind hlll with private orders and anti until the railroads get gel all an tho they need private r f parties parties will wili have but a n. ghost of oC a I much coal In Inthe inS too chance There Is none tilt the city at Itt the th present time tinte and anti the tile 5 S S shortage will vIll not help matters matteIs any |
